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Title: Slavery as it exists in America : Slavery as it exists in England
Description: Racist, anti-abolition print challenging Northern abolitionists' view of slavery by favorably contrasting the living conditions of enslaved African American people in America with that of British industrial workers. First image depicts enslaved men, women, and children playing music, singing, and dancing during a hoe-down while Southerners and Northerners observe and comment about how the false reports to the North about the hardships of slavery will now be rectified. Second image portrays a British cloth factory where several emaciated white factory workers, attired in torn and worn clothes, have gathered, including a woman and her children referring to themselves as slaves; two workers discussing running away to an easier life in the coal mines; and workers commenting on their premature aging. A rotund priest and tax collector observe. Soldiers march in the background. Below the image is a small portrait of the "English Anti-slavery Agitator" George Thompson., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by J. Haven in the clerk's office of the District Court of Mass., Manuscript note on verso: Deposited April 9, 1851, Recorded vol 26. pag, 145., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1967, p. 55., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1850-6 [P.9675]

Title: Lodore cascade, Derwentwater
Description: Landscape view of Lodore Falls surrounded by trees near Derwent Water, England. A man stands behind two women that sit in the grass in the foreground., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9844.36]

Title: A New and accurate plan of the cities of London and Westminster, including new roads & new buildings
Description: "A scale of 880 yards or 1/2 a mile."--scale bar is 7.5 cm long., Library Company copy is folded and tipped in facing p. 521 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with Collinson's MS. date: 1762.
Date: [1762?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.12

Title: [Group in a courtyard, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a group of young men wearing black robes walking through a courtyard. A boy wearing a dark suit walks away from the camera in the foreground. A large building with towers and crenellated roof stands behind the courtyard., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.3]

Title: [Boys dressed in robes in courtyard, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a group of boys dressed in long, black robes with white collars standing in a courtyard, probably in London., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.4]

Title: [Group of boys dressed in robes posed for a portrait, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris' European Honeymoon showing a group of boys dressed in black robes with white collars posed for a portrait., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.5]

Title: [Street scene, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a street, probably in London, crowded with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians. Some of the carriages display advertisements for Nestle's Milk, Reckitt's Blue, and Lifebouy Royal Disinfectant., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.6]

Title: [Boys band, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a group of boys wearing long, black robes with white collars playing musical instruments. Instruments include trumpets, trombones, clarinets, tubas, and a drum., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.7]

Title: [Fortified tower, probably England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a stone tower with a crenellated rooftop standing next to a river, probably in England. A boat travels down the river and a dirt road runs in front of the tower. A bicycle leans against a fence next to the road., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.8]

Title: [Boys marching, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a group of boys dressed in long, black robes with white collars marching in lines across a courtyard, probably in England., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.9]

Title: [Boys playing ball, probably London]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a group of boys wearing black uniforms with white collars standing in a courtyard. The boy in the center of the group holds a ball and another ball sits on the ground., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: Summer 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.11]

Title: London
Description: John Norden's map of London, 1593., Printed area measures 17.5 x 24.5 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Creator: Norden, John, 1548-1625?
Date: [between 1640 and 1667?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.5

Title: [Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
Description: Sketchbook containing predominantly life studies of animals in pencil. Animals depicted include sheep, cows, horses, goats, dogs, frogs, and a pig. Some sketches are composed as scenes, including depictions of a herd of sheep in a hutch; sheep grazing by a tree on a farm; cows wading in water, and grazing near a creek by a bridge; and a family group of sheep, including a ram. Other sketches show a female figure carrying a bucket (Emily Moran?), landscapes, tree studies, a view of a barn and farm, detailed compositions of a saddle on the back of a horse and a dog laying in the grass, as well as a view, with manuscript notes about color, depicting a fire-ravaged area of forest . Also contains a small number of watercolors of landscapes and pasted in scraps containing sketched studies of sheep, a landscape, donkey, and pig., Some images include inscriptions, some partially legible, including about dimensions and color., Inside back cover contains faint sketch of possibly buildings., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See David Gilmore Wright, Domestic and wild: Peter Moran's images of America (Baltimore: Creo Press, 2010), vol. 1, 45, 71., Missing front cover.
Creator: Moran, Peter, 1841-1914, artist
Date: 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Moran - vol. 3 [P.2011.39c]

Title: Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage, [blank] and now riding at anchor, in [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to h[blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship, hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
Description: Three bills of lading printed one above the other on a single half sheet; each of the three blank forms begins with an ornamental letter S., Printed area measures 32.1 x 15.6 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy completed in MS. in triplicate for Nathaniel West Dandridge, shipping eight hogsheads of tocabbo to Messrs. Farrel & Jones, Bristol, England, aboard the ship Realto, at anchor in York River, John Thomas, master; dated Aug. 30, 1762 and signed by John Thomas., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Date: [not after 1762]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1762 Shipped 16922.Q (Zinman)

Title: A Plan of London as in Q. Elizabeths days
Description: Signed at foot: Thos. Bowles sculp., John Bowles was at this address from 1740? to 1775, from 1754 to about 1764 as John Bowles & Son., Printed area measures 36.6 x 55.9 cm., Includes also: The south prospect of London as it appear'd when it lay in ruins after that dreadfull fire in 1666., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date: [between 1740 and 1754?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.3

Title: List of the inhabitants, of the united parishes of St. Bennet-Grace-Church, and St. Leonard-Eastcheap
Description: Caption title., The list of names appears in three columns divided by printers' ornaments., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 382, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); dated in Peter Collinson's hand: December 20, 1757; with his MS. notes.
Date: [1757]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.8

Title: The Albion Society. [membership certificate] Established Decr. 18th 1855
Description: Membership certificate for the society "established at Philadelphia for the advice and assistance of English men in distress" containing a view of Dover, England. Depicts men dragging a boat on to the coastline near the white cliffs, Dover castle, and piers. Ships sail on the turbulent waters. Also contains a blue ribbon adorned with the seal of the society. The society also aided the wives, widows, and children of members and sought to "promote social intercourse among members.", Not in Wainwright., Issued to John F. Smith on February 13, 1875. Signed William Elliate, President and H. K. Day, Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Albion, Traubel & Co. operated as a firm 1853-1869., Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John F. Combs, Feb, 12, 1912.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Albion

Title: [C.J. Kino trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting two boys with oversized tailoring instruments cutting and measuring fabric. Includes vignettes of front elevations of Kino's tailor shops on versos., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.465] contains advertising text and trademark on verso: C.J. Kino, tailor, 40 West Strand., One print [1975.F.466] contains advertising text and trademark on verso: C.J. Kino, tailor, 164 Fenchurch Street, City., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Kino [1975.F.465 & 466]

Title: A General view of the city of London next the River Thames = Vue générale de la ville de Londres qui comprend la partie la plus voisine de la Tamise
Description: A hand-colored view of London, numbered in the upper right corner: 1a., John Bowles was at this address from 1740? to 1775; his son Carington Bowles was at this address from 1764 to 1793., Plate mark measures 18.5 x 27.4 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date: [between 1764 and 1768?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.1

Title: CCXI. sociable letters
Description: Letters CXC and CXCI only, removed from the whole work, describing London in a cold and snowy winter., Library Company copy is tipped at p. 683 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); followed by a leaf of Collinson's MS. notes.
Creator: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674
Date: 1664
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.13

Title: A Chronological and historical account from the first building a bridge across the River Thames, from London to Southwark, 'till the late conflagration of the temporary bridge, the 11th of April, 1758
Description: Caption title., At head of text is an engraved illustration with the title: An exact view of London Bridge since the conflagration., Printed area measures 40.3 x 37.0 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 32, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); trimmed at foot, removing printseller's name; imprint from ESTC
Date: [1758]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.7

Title: A Plan of all the houses destroyed and damaged by the great fire which began in Bishopsgate Street on Thursday Novr. 7. 1765
Description: Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 444, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. notes.
Date: Novr. 16, 1765
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.9

Title: A View of the ruins of St. Peters Church, the corner of Leadenhall Street
Description: At head of engraving: Gent. Mag. Feb. 1766., This is not the Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill on Grace Church Street just off Leadenhall Street. The ruins here depicted were found under Mr. Hardy's house at the corner of Leadenhall and Bishopsgate Streets after the Bishopsgate fire of Nov. 1765., Plate mark measures 18.5 x 27.4 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in, at p. 445, to Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with his MS. note.
Date: [1766]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.10

Title: In 1773 in Boston town was spilled the tea. These are not Indians that you see, but patriots fighting tyranny; they spilled the tea, then drank their fill of coffee ground in Enterprise mill
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Coffee, Spice and Drug Mills." Contains an anachronistic, historical scene including a caricaturized depiction of Boston Tea Party demonstrators. Shows the men in feather head pieces using a huge Enterprise coffee mill and drinking cups and saucers of coffee. A banner reading "No Taxation Without Representation"waves above their heads." Also contains a view of the Fisheries Building. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Coffee, Spice and Drug Mills. 24 Sizes-$1.25 to $100.00. The excellence of our coffee Mills has been recognized for years. This does not deter us, however, from constantly trying to make them still better, and it will be our earnest endeavor to maintain their high order of superiority. For full information concerning sizes adapted to the store, household, etc., and prices, send for Catalogue., Printed on verso of P.2008.36.56: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a hand-operated coffee mill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.56 & 68]

Title: A plan & elevation of a new bridge to be built at Black Fryars
Description: Plate signed: Dowbiggin invt 1756., At head of plate: Drawn and engraved for the London magazine 1756., Lancelot Dowbiggin's design for the Blackfriars Bridge was rejected in favor of a design by Robert Mylne, but the plate was published in the London magazine in April 1756., Printed area measures 16.5 x 32.3 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Creator: Dowbiggin, Lancelot, 1685-1759
Date: [1756]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.2

Title: A New & correct plan of all the houses destroy'd and damaged by the fire which began in Exchange Alley, Cornhill, on Friday, March 25th, 1748
Description: At top of plate: To face p: 139 Lond: Mag: for March 1748., At foot: A larger plan of this dreadful fire with the names of ye sufferers engraved on the place of their respective habitations may be had of M. Payne at the White Hart in Pater Noster Row., "Yards 18 to an inch.", Printed area measures 17.4 x 23.0 cm., Library Company copy is tipped in Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739).
Date: [1748]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.4

Title: [Sketchbook of architecture in England, France, and Belgium]
Description: Sketchbook containing pencil drawings of exterior and interior views and architectural features of buildings in England, France, and Belgium. Includes manuscript notes about expenditures and architectural details, such as measurements and colors. Titled sketches include: Farmhouse nr. Chambourg Tourraine; Houses across the Indre at Azay; Old Mill at Azay-le-Rideau, Stone walls - fine slate roof no cornice; Azay-le-Rideau The Indre; Ambulatory of Bouges; Hand latch St. Pierre Coutanc[es], escutcheon beveled esge St. Pierre Countances; Countances 9-16-23; Rouen Choir 8-22-23; Amiens; An Abbeville horse; Home nr. Ashford, Kent; White gate nr. Ashford, Kent; Red tile hip- cemented at angles (Kentish); App. Scheme of truss Charing Church, Kent; Interior of window of porch, Lenham Church, Kent; Old lectern-Lenham Ch., Kent; Brass chandelier, Lenham Ch. Kent like Bruges; Eccleston Ch.; Ext. Section Selby Abbey S. Transept Window (modern); Ch. of St. John Evangelist (Cowley, Fathers); St. Cath. College Entrance Hall., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript inscription written on interior of front cover: Donald Robb Cochran, Europe 1923., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Donald Robb Cochran (1897-1986) was born in Chester, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1921. From 1921 to 1923, he worked as a draftsman at the Boston firm of Frohman, Robb & Little. He then worked at the Philadelphia firm Mellor, Meigs & Howe until 1932. In 1933, he joined Sun Oil Co. as a staff architect.
Creator: Cochran, Donald Robb, 1897-1986
Date: 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – albums [P.2022.62.3.51]

Title: Magna Britannia antiqua & nova: or, A new, exact, and comprehensive survey of the ancient and present state of Great Britain ... Vol. III
Description: Pages 243-246 only, with running title: Westminster., Library Company copy is tipped at p. 742 of Peter Collinson's copy of William Maitland's The history of London (London: Samuel Richardson, 1739); with two clippings from unknown sources pasted to p. 246.
Creator: Cox, Thomas, d. 1734
Date: 1738
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Eng Maitland (bw) 12049.F.14

Title: When Alden wooed the fair Priscilla for his friend. In sixteen twenty six by Plymouth Rocks environs. The course of true love, rough at first, was at the end. As smooth as if they'd used the Enterprise sad irons
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "cold handle sad irons." Contains an anachronistic historical scene captioned "Why Don't You Speak For Yourself John" including the notable Pilgrim couple Priscilla and John Alden. Scene shows John Alden beside a chair on which a jacket rests and behind Priscilla, attired in 19th-century like Pilgrim's attire, ironing a shirt on a table with an Enterprise sad iron. Also contains a view of the Italian Renaissance-style Woman's Building designed by Sophie Hayden. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text on verso: Enterprise Cold Handle Sad Irons. [Mrs. Potts' Patent.] These irons are so well and favorably known that we will refer but briefly to a few main points of superiority. They are ground by patented machinery, which makes every Iron true and the face of the Iron slightly convex, thus making ironing easier than with the old style flat irons. The detachable handles are walnut, excepting the lower part, which is a TINNED iron casting, called a stretcher; they do not become hot, need no holder of cloth, and fit naturally to the hand without straining the arm or wrist. Three irons (of different sizes), one handle and stand comprise a set. For prices and further information send for the Catalogue., Printed on verso of P.2008.36.52: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Printed on verso of P.2008.36.78: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on the verso varies between the prints., Vignette illustration on verso. Depicts a hand holding the detached handle of one of three irons., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.52 & 78]

Title: [Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
Description: Sketchbook containing predominantly life studies of animals in pencil, often composed as montages. Animals depicted include cows, dogs, chickens, and cats. Images include studies of heads, bodies, hooves, and joints, as well as full-length depictions, primarily cows, while grazing, wading in water, and lying in the grass. Other sketches show human figures, including probably Emily and Charles Moran; landscapes, including a panorama containing a factory; tree and flower studies; and a scene captioned "Destruction of Schenectady by French & Indians. Attack at night. Cold and snow on the ground" bordered by a view of a couple seated on a bench near a lake. Also contains a small number of pasted in scraps containing studies of sheep, cows, and a landscape., Front outside cover inscribed: Moran., Some images include inscriptions, often illegible., Inside front cover inscribed: P. Moran, 1322 Jefferson St., Philadelphia, Penna.; 100 [Drawing?] Label for “A.A. Walker & Co., Importing Artist Colormen, 538 Washington St., Boston., Label pasted on inside front cover: A.A. Walker & Co., Importing Artist Colormen, 538 Washington St., Boston., Contains one dated sketch. Dated "Aug 29/82" and shows a landscape, including a pond., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See David Gilmore Wright, Domestic and wild: Peter Moran's images of America (Baltimore: Creo Press, 2010), vol. 1, 45, 71., Final leaves (pp. [38]-[40]) of volume reassembled to original order in spring 2021. Digital images of album taken before 2021.
Creator: Moran, Peter, 1841-1914, artist
Date: [1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Moran - vol. 2 [P.2011.39b]

Title: [P. Madeira trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting Pugh Madeira's cutlery and surgical instrument establishment at 115 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia. lllustrations represent world countries by depicting boys attired in styles of clothing native to China, France, Germany, South America, Hungary, United States, Turkey, Spain, Italy, England, Russia, and Mexico. Also shows two boys riding horses. The card labeled, “China,” shows a Chinese boy with a carrying pole across his shoulders, which holds cards on each side. He wears a queue hairstyle and is attired in a red hat with a black brim; a colorful, long-sleeved tunic; yellow pants; and yellow boots. He holds an orange card in his left hand. A piece of wood is yoked across his shoulders and wire or string hangs down on both sides, which balance the weight of the load. The border has decorative Chinese-stylized decorative motifs., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from dates of operation of the advertised business., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Madeira [1975.F.594; 1975.F.599-608; 1975.F.647; P.2002.9.3]

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